Posted 10 years ago
matthewwoods
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I got this cinemaography camera from a charity shop this morning for two pounds. it is metal, has a detachable handle and at the back it has a little switch. the front says Ambassador which leads me to believe it is corona. whith its handle on it stands to about eight inches tall. honestly I am posting this here to see if anybody knows anything about it/
It is a Russian (USSR) 8mm movie camera. The emblem at top is the GOMZ logo which stands for Gosudarstvennyi Optiko-Mekhanicheskii Zavod (State Optical-Mechanical Factory). Founded in 1932 near Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), the GOMZ factory is one of the oldest Soviet optical companies. It was the manufacturer of the early series of the famous Lubitel cameras. In 1962 GOMZ became a part the Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Association of Enterprises and in In 1965 the name changed again as Leningrad Optical-Mechanical Union. (LOMO)